Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 13 June 2015 05:41:02 Russell L. Carter wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
> >> the following happens:
> >>
> >> 1.  I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
> >>      temporary files.  Please enter an appropriate directory in the
> >>      preferences dialog."
> >>
> >> Click ok, then:
> >>
> >> 2.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
> >>      failed in getPlayDevIndex()."  A backtrace is available but
> >>      doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
> >>
> >> Click continue, then:
> >>
> >> 3.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
> >>      failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
> >>
> >> Continue then segfaults.
> >>
> >> The googleman doesn't provide any clues.  Ideas?
> >
> > You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch
> > amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric
>
> This is an agressively cut down system w/o gnome, kde, etc.  Just wdm
> and fvwm.  I have pulse installed and it is running.  So I am missing
> an early dependency somewhere.  I wonder what that could be?

As a start, have you run 
#aptitude show audacity
to see what the initial situation is?
Lisi